Monday, May 20

Bell-Ringer: Vocabulary

Friday, we read the article from The New Yorker, "Is 'Anna Karenina' a Love Story?"
Find the following words in the text and annotate their meanings:

• metafictional
• counterfactuals
• martyr
• anti-hero
• fatalistic
• reverent

Discussion: Anna Karenina

• Ideas about symbolism of the stage?
• What do you think Levin "understood" at the end of the movie?
• Is it a love story?
• Is Anna an anti-hero or a "martyr to Love"?
• What is Rothman's "so what" in his article?
• According to Rothman, how do the themes of Wright's version of the movie and Tolstoy's novel differ?